In 2002, I was in year 8 and had very few friends. After enrolling in my third high school in two years, I was pretty sick of having to make a good impression for a bunch of cruel thirteen year olds. I spent all my free time re-watching episodes of Toonami that I’d taped, drawing bad anime or downloading midi files off of a multitude of Sailor Moon webrings.

Just before the summer holidays, it suddenly became very cool to have your own Geocities webpage. My friends had jumped on board, and as I was in the height of peer pressure acceptance, I followed suit. Thanks to the wonderful Geocities WYSIWYG editor, I knocked up a Hello Kitty profile page full of Comic Sans and a baby pink text cursor trail that I’m pretty sure read ‘WeLcOmE 2 mY wEbSiTe ^_^’. It was really just another pointless page among the trash heap of post Y2K internet. But at least it was my pointless page. Oh, and I just found an archived version. It’s beautiful. Continue reading